Although French, I tend to agree with Google. Bu what does this mean:
> Aside from anything else, it’s plain common sense that one country should not have the right to impose its rules on the citizens of another, especially not when it comes to lawful content.
Lawful content? According to whom? By saying that, Google seems to agree that there is such a thing as a universal lawfulness, which is the point the CNIL is trying to make.
If there was a country that considered child porn to be completely ok (and there may be), would Google let American citizen visiting that country search and find child porn on the local Google?
The "right to be forgotten" does not apply to illegal content. If it was illegal it could just be removed from the origin servers (if in the EU) and the publishers punished. The right to be forgotten applies to legal, true content which nobody will be punished for, but which the person it's about would prefer to go away.
> Aside from anything else, it’s plain common sense that one country should not have the right to impose its rules on the citizens of another, especially not when it comes to lawful content.
Lawful content? According to whom? By saying that, Google seems to agree that there is such a thing as a universal lawfulness, which is the point the CNIL is trying to make.
If there was a country that considered child porn to be completely ok (and there may be), would Google let American citizen visiting that country search and find child porn on the local Google?